Recommended for you

Start writing a post

Lifestyle

10 Feelings You Experience While Visiting Home for Fall Break

Sigh of Relief

Julia Smith

Oct 10, 2016

University of Maine

10 Feelings You Experience While Visiting Home for Fall Break

Burke Basic School

If you're on fall break, home from college, these are 10 feelings that you almost certainly are experiencing:

1. Regret.

Going two and a half hours away doesn't seem so bad until I have to make the drive to and from school. I always regret going to UMaine while driving on the highway for two and a half hours straight with nothing but trees for a view.

2. Relief

As soon as I walk through the door to my house I feel instant relief. Just knowing that I will be able to sleep in my own bed and eat home-cooked meals for the next couple days makes that drive so worth it.

3. Relaxed

I start to feel relaxed as soon as I sit around the fire with my family after eating a home-cooked meal. Just for the weekend I can forget about my loads of homework and studying I have to do once I go back to school.

4. Nostalgic

I always miss home while driving through town and seeing old restaurants and spots my friends and I used to hang out at. Seeing old friends from high school always brings back nostalgic feelings as well.

5. Unwelcome

The moment I walk through the door of our local breakfast place or house of pizza, I immediately feel like an outsider. My old group of friends was replaced by current high schoolers, and they do not want us back.

6. Unorganized

Not only did I bring home a huge duffel bag, but I brought along my big basket of laundry as well. Living out of a duffel bag for a few days makes it very hard to stay organized, and I always end up building up a huge pile of clothes on my bedroom floor.

7. Annoyed

Since I'm used to cleaning my room or doing my dishes on my own time, I hate being told when I have to do those chores. Although I love being around my family, I don't love not having the freedom that I have at school.

8. Uncool

Since I'm a big, bad college student, you would think I would feel so cool around the high schoolers, but instead I feel like the opposite. While visiting home, I'm back in high school territory, and they're the cool kids now.

9. Stressed

The night before heading back to school, reality sets in. I realize how much homework and studying I neglected to do throughout the weekend, and immediately I feel stressed to the max.

10. Thankful

While getting ready to head back to school, I can't help but feel sad to leave home again. I'll miss my bed, home-cooked meals, and most importantly my family. I'm so thankful to have a home that makes it so hard to leave each time.

Report this Content

This article has not been reviewed by Odyssey HQ and solely reflects the ideas and opinions of the creator.

Health and Wellness

5 Ways To Bring Positivity Into Your Life When All You Want To Do Is Drown In Self-Pity

It seems like life has been serving up more bad than good and in all honesty, the only thing you want to do is crawl under your covers and hide from the rest of the world.

Grand Canyon University

1315

5 Ways To Bring Positivity Into Your Life When All You Want To Do Is Drown In Self-Pity

Photo by Kinga Howard on Unsplash

The first two weeks of classes have come to an end and they have been anything BUT easy. It seems like life has been serving up more bad than good and in all honesty, the only thing you want to do is crawl under your covers and hide from the rest of the world.

Although this seems like the best solution, it is also the easy way out. Take it from the girl who took basically a whole week off from her life because she just could not handle everything that was being thrown at her. This caused her to feel extremely lonely and even more stressed out for being behind in classes that JUST began.

Keep Reading...Show less

self-pity

Entertainment

11 Things We Learned From Brooke Davis

"What's more important? What we become or how we become it?"

St. Thomas Aquinas College

694

"She was fiercely independent, Brooke Davis. Brilliant, and beautiful, and brave. In two years she had grown more than anyone I had ever known. Brooke Davis is going to change the world someday, and I'm not sure she even knows it." - Lucas Scott, An Unkindness of Ravens

Brooke Davis of the hit show One Tree Hill was the it girl - she had it all, or so we thought. She started out as a stuck-up, shallow, spoiled, head cheerleader who didn't have her life together. She slept around a lot and loved to party - sounds like your typical high school teenager right? Wrong. B. Davis had so much more to offer. Caring, loyal, and outspoken, she has taught us some valuable lessons throughout the 9 seasons that OTH was on the air:

Keep Reading...Show less

brooke davis

Relationships

11 Signs You Have An Honorary Roommate

Make yourself at home, why don't you?

Appalachian State University

2610

Rachel Zadeits

For some of us, coming to college was the first time we ever had to share a room. It was a big change, but a fun one. As you meet more and more people over the course of your college career, it seems to be a pattern that you will at some point have that one friend that doesn't live with you, but acts like they do. We call those people, "Honorary Roommates" and here are 11 signs you have one in your life.